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119 Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 213
SPEED: Government and Health Policy — Contributed Speed
Health Policy Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences, Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Chair(s): Mojca Bavdaz, University of Ljubljana
Poster Presentations for this session.
8:35 AM DataSifter: Statistical Obfuscation of Electronic Health Record and Other Sensitive Data Sets
Nina Zhou, University of Michigan; Simeone Marino, Statistics Online Computational Resource, University of Michigan; Lu Wang, University of Michigan; Yiwang Zhou, University of Michigan; Ivo Dinov, Statistics Online Computational Resource, University of Michigan
8:40 AM Deep Learning on Small Data - Experiences in Transfer Learning for Healthcare

Dennis Murphree
8:45 AM Doing More with Less - Eliminating the Long Survey Forms from the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey

Carrie K. Jones, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:00 AM Statistically Supporting Health Policy Decision-Making

Frank Yoon, IBM Watson Health
9:05 AM Intravenous Fluid Treatments for Ebola Patients: The Risk and the Reward

Derrick Yam, Brown University; Tao Liu, Brown University; Adam Levine, Brown University; Adam Aluisio, Brown University; Shiromi Peters, International Medical Corps; Suzanne Averill, International Medical Corps; Stephen Kennedy, Ministry of Health, Liberia; Fodey Sahr, Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence; Jillian Peters, Brown University; Daniel Cho, Brown University
9:10 AM Comparison of Methods for Predicting High-Cost Patients Captured Within the Oncology Care Model (OCM): a Simulation Study

Jung-Yi Lin, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Wei Zhang, UALR; Mark Liu, Mount Sinai Health System; Mark Sanderson, Mount Sinai Health System; Luis Isola, Mount Sinai Health System; Madhu Mazumdar, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Liangyuan Hu, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
9:15 AM Intervening on the Data to Improve the Performance of Health Plan Payment Methods

Savannah Bergquist, Harvard University; Tim Layton, Harvard Medical School; Tom McGuire, Harvard Medical School; Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
9:20 AM Developing and Evaluating Methods for Estimating Race/Ethnicity in an Incomplete Dataset Using Address, Surname and Family Race

Gabriella Christine Silva, Brown University; Roee Gutman, Brown University
9:30 AM Can Post-Stratification Weighting Eliminate the Need for Additional Weights Adjustments?
Chrishelle Lawrence, U.S. Energy Information Administration
9:35 AM Open Data Sharing and Its Statistical Limitations

Pooja Iyer, RTI International; Barbara Do, RTI International
9:40 AM Predictors of Hospitalization During a Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Stay

Fei Han, The Hilltop Institute; Ian Stockwell, The Hilltop Institute
9:45 AM Comparison of Treatment Policies Using Bayesian Nonparametric G-Formula

Yizhen Xu, Brown University; Tao Liu, Brown University; Rami Kantor, Brown University; Joseph W Hogan, Brown University School of Public Health
9:50 AM Optimal Matching Approaches in Health Policy Evaluations Under Rolling Enrollment

Jonathan Gellar, Mathematica Policy Research; Jiaqi Li, Mathematica Policy Research; Lauren Vollmer, Mathematica Policy Research
9:55 AM Assessing Health Care Interventions via an Interrupted Time Series Model: Study Power and Design Considerations

Maricela Cruz, University of California, Irvine; Miriam Bender, University of California, Irvine; Daniel L. Gillen, University of California, Irvine; Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
10:00 AM Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence: a Better Parallel Trends Test

Alyssa Bilinski, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Laura Hatfield, Harvard Medical School
10:05 AM New Applications of Machine Learning to Estimating Large Physician Demand Models

Bryan Sayer, Social & Scientific Systems, Inc.; William Encinosa, Agency for Health Care Quality and Research
10:10 AM On Utilizing Published Prevalence Estimates to Perform Difference-In-Difference Tests: Testing the Impact of Recreational Marijuana Laws

Christine Mauro, Columbia University; Chen Chen, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Silvia Martins, Columbia University; Magda Cerdá, University of California, Davis; Melanie M. Wall, Columbia University
10:15 AM Community Detection with Dependent Connectivity
Yubai Yuan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign